2010 Baltimore Historians Roundtable

This daylong event will feature open discussions between Baltimore searchers of all stripes. Historians, political scientists, lawyers, journalists, archivists, preservationists, and urban planners will talk about their publications past, and their plans for future.

Professor Howell S. BaumUrban Studies and Planning Program, University of Maryland College Park , author of Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism (Cornell University Press 2010)

Louis S. DiggsIndependent Scholar, author of eight books on African-American life and communities in Baltimore County, who has recently published Forgotten Road Warriors (Uptown Press, 2005)

Antero PietilaJournalist, author of Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City (Ivan R. Dee, 2010)

Moderator:
Dr. Robert J. BruggerThe Johns Hopkins University Press

11:15 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
PANEL II - History Across the Disciplines

Professor Emeritus David BogenUniversity of Maryland School of Law, author of The Death of Equality in Separate but Equal: Hawkins v. Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway Co. (publication pending 2010)

Professor Emeritus Matthew CrensonJohns Hopkins University Department of Political Science, author of a nine-part entry on Baltimore for a new encyclopedia –– Cities in American History (CQ Press, forthcoming)

Dr. Jeffrey SawyerH. Mebane Turner Professor of Early American and American Constitutional History, University of Baltimore, author of a work in progress analyzing the transformation of Maryland law to a print culture

Moderator:
Dr. Kriste LindenmeyerChair, Department of History, University of Maryland Baltimore County

1:00–2:00 p.m. LunchSpeaker:
Gilbert SandlerJournalist and author of Home Front Baltimore: An Album of Memories of World War II (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming)